/bonfirebb/tenders/search

POST /api/bonfirebb/tenders/search

Price: 10 credits

Search the public procurement opportunities of the Government of Barbados on its eProcurement board (gov-bb.bonfirehub.com), open and past, by text, stage and buyer. Returns one row per opportunity, latest closing date first: id, reference, title, buyer, closing time, stage, status and award publication flag.

How to use it

`stage` is open, closed, awarded or cancelled; awarded means the award was made public. Take `buyer_id` from a row to list one buyer's opportunities.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• query string nullable — Text to look for in the title, reference or buyer name (examples: "water"; minLength: 1)
• section string nullable — Open or past opportunities (one of: "open", "past")
• stage string nullable — Stage of the opportunity (one of: "open", "closed", "awarded", "cancelled")
• buyer_id string nullable — Buyer id (examples: "6909"; pattern: ^\d+$)
• buyer_name string nullable — Part of the buyer's name (examples: "Water Authority"; minLength: 1)
• count integer required — Max number of opportunities to return (min: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "BonfirebbTender")
• id string required
• reference string nullable
• name string nullable
• buyer_id string nullable
• buyer_name string nullable
• submission_deadline_at integer nullable
• stage string nullable (one of: "open", "closed", "awarded", "cancelled")
• status string nullable
• sub_status string nullable
• visibility string nullable
• is_award_public boolean nullable
• section string required (one of: "open", "past")
• past_open_periods array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "BonfirebbOpenPeriod")
  • opened_at integer nullable
  • closed_at integer nullable
  • created_at integer nullable
  • updated_at integer nullable
• country string (default: "BB")
• url string required

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — The entity was not found, or a precondition failed Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.